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Honestly, this type of pedantry is pointless. We all understood what he meant. English is an evolving language, and many of the things that are "correct" today
by beaumartinez 14y ago
Honestly, this type of pedantry is pointless. We all understood what he meant. English is an evolving language, and many of the things that are "correct" today were similarly "incorrect" yesterday.
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- chalst 14y agoQuite. This kind of attachment to the peculiarities of Standard English rarely matters outside highly formal settings - it is as much an enemy of effective communication as its servant. Example of advise used as a noun, a snowclone most of us have probably encountered: An X's advise to his/her Y (based on the eponymously authored 1811 "Lord Chesterfield's Advise to His Son"), which loses its impact in print if you don't use the not-very-archaic spelling.
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